Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production
8% rate hike for utility customers —millions in tax incentives for data center companies to bring tax revenue and jobs... -...resulting in Maricopa having the 2nd largest concentration of data cente...
AI companies, running out of conventional training datasets from the web, may be forced to shift from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models
why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI co-founder says AI is reaching “peak data” as it hits the limits of the internet Kylie Robison / The V...
CISAC study: generative AI risks costing music artists ~20% of their revenues by 2028; Abba's Björn Ulvaeus warns that AI “has the power to cause great damage”
‘Very unfair’ for tech companies to use artists' work without paying them, says pop legend and head of advocacy group
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants
“In Omaha, where Google and Meta recently set up sprawling data center operations, a coal plant that was supposed to go offline in 2022 will now be operational through at least 2026. The local utilit...